Fonts

`fonts.enableDefaultPackages`

Enable a basic set of fonts providing several styles and families and reasonable coverage of Unicode.

Type: boolean

Default

false

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/config/fonts/packages.nix

`fonts.enableGhostscriptFonts`

Whether to add the fonts provided by Ghostscript (such as various URW fonts and the “Base-14” Postscript fonts) to the list of system fonts, making them available to X11 applications.

Type: boolean

Default

false

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/config/fonts/ghostscript.nix

`fonts.fontDir.decompressFonts`

Whether to decompress fonts in {file}/run/current-system/sw/share/X11/fonts.

Type: boolean

Default

config.programs.xwayland.enable

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/config/fonts/fontdir.nix

`fonts.fontDir.enable`

Whether to create a directory with links to all fonts in {file}/run/current-system/sw/share/X11/fonts.

Type: boolean

Default

false

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/config/fonts/fontdir.nix

`fonts.fontconfig.allowBitmaps`

Allow bitmap fonts. Set to false to ban all bitmap fonts.

Type: boolean

Default

true

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/config/fonts/fontconfig.nix

`fonts.fontconfig.allowType1`

Allow Type-1 fonts. Default is false because of poor rendering.

Type: boolean

Default

false

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/config/fonts/fontconfig.nix

`fonts.fontconfig.antialias`

Enable font antialiasing. At high resolution (> 200 DPI), antialiasing has no visible effect; users of such displays may want to disable this option.

Type: boolean

Default

true

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/config/fonts/fontconfig.nix

`fonts.fontconfig.cache32Bit`

Generate system fonts cache for 32-bit applications.

Type: boolean

Default

false

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/config/fonts/fontconfig.nix

`fonts.fontconfig.defaultFonts.emoji`

System-wide default emoji font(s). Multiple fonts may be listed in case a font does not support all emoji.

Note that fontconfig matches color emoji fonts preferentially, so if you want to use a black and white font while having a color font installed (eg. Noto Color Emoji installed alongside Noto Emoji), fontconfig will still choose the color font even when it is later in the list.

Type: list of string

Default

["Noto Color Emoji"]

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/config/fonts/fontconfig.nix

`fonts.fontconfig.defaultFonts.monospace`

System-wide default monospace font(s). Multiple fonts may be listed in case multiple languages must be supported.

Type: list of string

Default

["DejaVu Sans Mono"]

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/config/fonts/fontconfig.nix

`fonts.fontconfig.defaultFonts.sansSerif`

System-wide default sans serif font(s). Multiple fonts may be listed in case multiple languages must be supported.

Type: list of string

Default

["DejaVu Sans"]

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/config/fonts/fontconfig.nix

`fonts.fontconfig.defaultFonts.serif`

System-wide default serif font(s). Multiple fonts may be listed in case multiple languages must be supported.

Type: list of string

Default

["DejaVu Serif"]

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/config/fonts/fontconfig.nix

`fonts.fontconfig.enable`

If enabled, a Fontconfig configuration file will be built pointing to a set of default fonts. If you don't care about running X11 applications or any other program that uses Fontconfig, you can turn this option off and prevent a dependency on all those fonts.

Type: boolean

Default

true

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/config/fonts/fontconfig.nix

`fonts.fontconfig.hinting.autohint`

Enable the autohinter in place of the default interpreter. The results are usually lower quality than correctly-hinted fonts, but better than unhinted fonts.

Type: boolean

Default

false

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/config/fonts/fontconfig.nix

`fonts.fontconfig.hinting.enable`

Enable font hinting. Hinting aligns glyphs to pixel boundaries to improve rendering sharpness at low resolution. At high resolution (> 200 dpi) hinting will do nothing (at best); users of such displays may want to disable this option.

Type: boolean

Default

true

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/config/fonts/fontconfig.nix

`fonts.fontconfig.hinting.style`

Hintstyle is the amount of font reshaping done to line up to the grid.

slight will make the font more fuzzy to line up to the grid but will be better in retaining font shape, while full will be a crisp font that aligns well to the pixel grid but will lose a greater amount of font shape.

Type: one of "none", "slight", "medium", "full"

Default

"slight"

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/config/fonts/fontconfig.nix

`fonts.fontconfig.includeUserConf`

Include the user configuration from {file}~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf or {file}~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d.

Type: boolean

Default

true

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/config/fonts/fontconfig.nix

`fonts.fontconfig.localConf`

System-wide customization file contents, has higher priority than defaultFonts settings.

Type: strings concatenated with "\n"

Default

""

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/config/fonts/fontconfig.nix

`fonts.fontconfig.subpixel.lcdfilter`

FreeType LCD filter. At high resolution (> 200 DPI), LCD filtering has no visible effect; users of such displays may want to select none.

Type: one of "none", "default", "light", "legacy"

Default

"default"

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/config/fonts/fontconfig.nix

`fonts.fontconfig.subpixel.rgba`

Subpixel order. The overwhelming majority of displays are rgb in their normal orientation. Select vrgb for mounting such a display 90 degrees clockwise from its normal orientation or vbgr for mounting 90 degrees counter-clockwise. Select bgr in the unlikely event of mounting 180 degrees from the normal orientation. Reverse these directions in the improbable event that the display's native subpixel order is bgr.

Type: one of "rgb", "bgr", "vrgb", "vbgr", "none"

Default

"none"

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/config/fonts/fontconfig.nix

`fonts.fontconfig.useEmbeddedBitmaps`

Use embedded bitmaps in fonts like Calibri. Type: boolean

Default

false

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/config/fonts/fontconfig.nix

`fonts.packages`

List of primary font packages. Type: list of path

Default

[ ]

Example

[ pkgs.dejavu_fonts ]

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/config/fonts/packages.nix